Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Oliver Stone knows this world is full of fools like me, which is why he’s turned Edward Snowden’s life into a film with famous faces in it and everything. Having watched Snowden, I feel even more foolish than before.

Monday, November 28, 2016

It’s funny how often fact turns out to be stranger than fiction. Just ask Vinny Pazienza, an american boxer whose real-life story has now been immortalised in Hollywood’s latest boxing biopic Bleed For This.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

What do you do when the made up story behind a film becomes bigger than the film itself? Hope said movie is good enough to consign such scurrilous media speculation to the past – but I’m not sure Brad Pitt’s new film Allied pulls this off.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Indignation is probably the best word I could use to describe my emotional state on arrival at a rather more stylish West End venue than I had envisioned, rocking the old dad-bod, complete with flustered, ruddy complexion and beige slacks.

Monday, November 14, 2016

A simple kind of life. No doubt this is a humble enough ambition, yet in our hyper connected and information saturated age, this simplicity feels more elusive than ever. Not for Paterson though, the titular bus-driving star of Jim Jarmusch’s brilliant new film.

Oliver Stone knows this world is full of fools like me, which is why he’s turned Edward Snowden’s life into a film with famous faces in it and everything. Having watched Snowden, I feel even more foolish than before.

It’s funny how often fact turns out to be stranger than fiction. Just ask Vinny Pazienza, an american boxer whose real-life story has now been immortalised in Hollywood’s latest boxing biopic Bleed For This.

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What do you do when the made up story behind a film becomes bigger than the film itself? Hope said movie is good enough to consign such scurrilous media speculation to the past – but I’m not sure Brad Pitt’s new film Allied pulls this off.

A simple kind of life. No doubt this is a humble enough ambition, yet in our hyper connected and information saturated age, this simplicity feels more elusive than ever. Not for Paterson though, the titular bus-driving star of Jim Jarmusch’s brilliant new film.